Cross Continental Friends!!!

[Megan Amber]

Whew, snow! We only got a little this year.

That's to bad about your tree, I like apricot's, They are my favorite fruit! I want to grow a tree myself, just have not gotten around to it yet.

O-Shamo's are some neat looking chickens. Are they better for eggs or for meat?

 

[SlowBill]

O-Shamo can be so fast or super slow to grow

the meat is very dry, red as the peasant

the chicks brood many times at year, normally, when they lay 12 - 15 eggs, sometimes, cockerels take care of the nest too

they are very jealous of their girls and their zone, better not introduce new roosters in a consolidated group, he risk to be beaten by the chickens too

they are so docile with humans

the better commercial use is crossbreeding them with some heavy chickens, exactly the opposite of the Cornish game

 

[Megan Amber]

Sounds pretty cool.Thanks for telling me some about them! I will have to add some to my flock.

I was trying to sell some bunnies for Easter but unfortunately that did not go as I had hoped. Now I am back to having way to many rabbits! That's okay though, they taste good.

 

[SlowBill]

where do you live, there's not some monthly or weekly fair?

many times, we've got to bring them where the need is

anyway, in the refrigerator they stop to eat and doing some dirt

when it's Christmas, i sell them frozen too, maybe from summer

my beloved grandma used to say:-if you live in the country, probably you can't get rich, but, you don't be starved too!-

if you wanna raise some O-Shamo, don't mix them with others roosters, not silkie or bantams for sure, that's a recipe for disaster

 

[Megan Amber]

We set up a stand on our road and I was trying my hand at a roadside market. Just didn't attract enough attention! Eventually my Dad and I are going to take them to a market.
There are laws over here that don't allow us to sell them as butchered meat either.

We are going to move our chickens to a free range operation so maybe when that happens I will put the O Shamo's in there empty coop!

 

[SlowBill]

you can't sell them killed at farmer market here too

but, if you start to doing your own clients portfolio, they wanna some clean and ready to cook too

I'm sell my animals and my products at the farmer market and fairs from almost 20 years, also when I've got no driving license

first months were very hard and I've got to eat and frozen for myself many times

but, getting older I become smarter too, i know what the needs are, and acting respecting them

to doing some table chickens, you can try to crossbreed an O-Shamo rooster with some Rhode island chicks, or a Cornish male with some American rocks, or raising some turkens too

hope you understand, technical themes are not my bread in English

 

[Megan Amber]

Actually I think I understood that better than I understand most english speaking breeders.

I have quite a while before I get old and smart, but I always have your knowledge and my Dad's knowledge to rely upon!

 

[SlowBill]

I'm so glad to reading this words

be curios, anytime you see some older breeder, say questions and don't think to teach them so early

but, remember, you've got two ears, two eyes, and just one mouth, to seeing and listening the double, and talking the half

my godfather is 80, he still works in the trees and teach me something almost every day

 

[Megan Amber]

Excellent advice and I will certainly remember that.

I need to go now but I enjoyed talking to you! Good Night Bill!

 

[SlowBill]

Buonanotte piccoletta,

if you wanna write something more, i will read it tomorrow

goodnight at all the mute observers too!